@cbsmornings: Officials and universities in several U.S. states condemned racist text messages that were sent to Black residents this week. The messages, which had almost identical language, told the recipient they had been "selected for cotton picking." The texts were received by people in states including Alabama, Texas, Georgia, Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Ohio, New York and Massachusetts, CBS News found.
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thoma_slee94 :
I don't think you guys aren't seeing the bigger picture. How is someone getting this much personal information able to categorize who is who down to their names!
2024-11-08 17:56:29
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Arnold Horseshack :
Guaranteed it's a liberal trying to make it look like this is a result of a Trump victory.
2024-11-08 17:50:52
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Detroit Atheist Queen :
Some of my friends received the Text messages as well and they're grown like in their forties and fifties
2024-11-12 16:59:39
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yorgishmorgi1 :
Very seriously, why is the FBI investigating this? I understand it’s bad but unless there’s threats I don’t see how anyone could be charged.
2024-11-08 16:20:20
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Momi :
"it's unclear who's behind this" but you just had someone on the phone admitting it was a prank in a way that hints ownership? FBI can't track that person to question them?? 😳
2024-11-08 16:10:32
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Peskykelp :
I had this happen to me
2024-11-08 15:37:07
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Sherry :
I'm so sorry this is absolutely not acceptable.
2024-11-08 16:14:53
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Sharday :
My son got this message as well what the hell
2024-11-09 00:27:09
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Grant Miller609 :
Bet it's the democrats doing it trying to divide us and cause problems
2024-11-09 03:56:18
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severus :
I can’t even fathom how we are going backwards. I am so ashamed. this is just not okay
2024-11-08 17:06:03
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Jennifer Soto :
this happened to my friend. made me so angry and sick. I hope they find out who did it
2024-11-08 15:57:08
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Sandra Soler Figuero :
My 17 year old son and 13 year old daughter got those text messages the only difference is theirs said to pick corn. This made me so mad 😡
2024-11-08 18:09:32
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✨ Erin ✨ :
Absolutely no one, especially children, deserves to be told anything remotely like this. I am horrified for our country.
2024-11-08 22:47:06
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Erin :
I need to know how this plays out. I want to know who is behind this. I’ll be following this story because how do they have all that information??! How?
2024-11-08 20:54:02
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SweetnessMcKee :
Keywords middle school high school college. Someone is getting the information from the databases of the schools or board of education obviously but for it to be this many how far up does it go?
2024-11-08 20:52:35
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TahoeMama :
This is absolutely terrifying. This needs to be taken extremely seriously… and whoever is responsible needs to be prosecuted.
2024-11-09 06:08:50
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Lo🌿 :
There needs to be consequences for this. This is absolutely horrible, it cannot be written off as a prank. How did they get their information? This is insane
2024-11-08 22:42:18
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K Dawg :
I was doing really well holding it together. But this is what broke me down to tears.
2024-11-08 17:15:16
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GrandmaBecca :
Whoever sent these messages needs to be ashamed of themselves. I cannot believe these people would lower their self that low to do this to people.
2024-11-08 17:21:45
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Brigitte Walker :
Words can not express the disgust, anger, disrespect that's felt!💔💔😪
2024-11-08 19:10:06
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Briza Robinson :
Nah the company text now needs to turn them account holders info over to the authorities cause shutting it down is not the way for them to learn anything or be held accountable.
2024-11-08 21:18:28
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claire! :
I am so sorry, this is horrifying. The people that sent those need to be held accountable.
2024-11-08 17:28:49
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AjBaggins :
Wait so they were able to trace back one of the ppl who sent it but didn’t say who? Why aren’t they saying who it was
2024-11-08 19:45:13
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UpTreeTop :
Why is my feed full of people stating that they checked their vote and it says their vote didn’t count?
2024-11-09 11:29:54
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